More Than A Party

LOL! The 20-somethings here in Portland, OR sure had quite their own party by throwing a massive protest downtown the night after George W. Bush was once again 'mis-elected'. Methinks all that rioting may have resulted because during the last pres. election in '04, we Dems and Independent sorts really went hard on the 18-25 crowd to actually VOTE for a change if they wanted to see Bush go back to that ranch he loves down in Texas. Well, as you know, electoral votes seem to count more than us peons, I mean, the popular vote, and those nudged Bush ahead by a whisker-hair into another term. Bummer! But that's how our democratic voting process works--ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances while still being a Good American Citizen. But oftentimes I do wonder about those votes that got screwed up in Ohio--would that have turned the tide. Well, we may never know why the 'party' went sour enough to have a large group of protesters sitting in a circle in the Portland rain blocking off the Burnside bridge all night. Even one major British paper came out The Day After with a big picture of Bush's face and this glaringly short headline: NOT HIM AGAIN? that my pharmacist hung prominently in his drugstore--let the hangover begin. We Pharmageeks have a Rx for that, LOL!

This should be the Republican Party's Theme Song!! It's about a (politcal)party that promises much more than it delivers; exploiting its members and society.